Research Catalog

Title

Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past : essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / edited by Toby Green, Benedetta Rossi.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Green, Toby, 1974-
• Rossi, Benedetta
• Farias, P. F. de Moraes

Description

xv, 521 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past' offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book?s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.

Series Statement

African history, 2211-1441 ; volume 6

Uniform Title

African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 6.

Subjects

• Africa, West > History
• Historiography
• Africa, West > Historiography
• West Africa
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Festschrift for Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Archaeology and material landscapes. -- All that glitters is not gold : facing the myths of ancient trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa / Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita -- African archaeology and the 'chalk line effect' : a consideration of Mali city and Sigilmasa / François-Xavier Fauvelle -- The 'Pays Do' and the origins of the Empire of Mali / Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita. -- Imagined landscapes and moral topographies. -- Imitation and creativity in the establishment of Islam in Oyo / Insa Nolte -- Fante 'origins' : the problematic evidence of 'tradition' / Robin Law -- The unknowns of the modern era in the greater Western Sahara : reassessing the territorial location of the Wlad Dlaym (15th-17th centuries) / Benjamin Acloque. -- Contextualising writing and written sources. -- Inscribing the now and the hereafter : first writings in early African history / Ghislaine Lydon -- New reinventions of the Sahel : reflections on the ta'riḫ genre in the Timbuktu historiographical production, seventeenth to twentieth centuries / Mauro Nobili -- Calibrating the scholarship of Timbuktu / Charles C. Stewart -- Rethinking the place of Timbuktu in the intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Bruce S. Hall -- Examples of Sahelian book collectors over two centuries / Shamil Jeppie. -- Contextualising orature and traditionalists. -- The time-tested traditionist : intellectual trajectory and mediation from the early empires to the present day / Mamadou Diawara -- The next generation : young griots' quest for authority / Jan Jansen -- In praise of history; history as praise / Karin Barber -- From essentialism to pluralisms : new directions in precolonial West African history from the oral history archive at Fajara, The Gambia / Toby Green -- Dreamworlds : cultural narrative in Asante visionary experience / Thomas C. McCaskie. -- Projects, texts, and representations. -- The life of a text : Carsten Niebuhr and 'Abd al-ra'man Aga's Das Innere von Afrika / Camille Lefebvre -- The Kano Chronicle revisited / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slavery or death in Sokoto and Borno : tactics, legalities and sources / Murray Last -- A story of exile, a story in exile : Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and 'un forfait colonial' (revisited) / E. Ann McDougall -- Edmond Fortier (1862-1928) : photographer, documentarian and creator of stereotypes in West Africa / Daniela Moreau. -- Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' publications and interview / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias -- Interpreting sources of the African past : an interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / by Benedetta Rossi.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1609

ISBN

• 9789004348837
• 9004348832

LCCN

• 2018028194
• 40028528122

OCLC

1041201500

Title

Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past : essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / edited by Toby Green, Benedetta Rossi.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African history, 2211-1441 ; volume 6

African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Green, Toby, 1974- editor.

Rossi, Benedetta, editor.

Farias, P. F. de Moraes, honouree.

Other Standard Identifier

40028528122

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1609